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Just completed a long term project of assembling the components for miniature machining, vintage style. It's a Levin watchmaker lathe with collet holding tailstock, which takes the same WW 8mm collets as the headstock. The cross feed and longitudinal attachment, along with the "big" scroll...

I'm setting up a bench for a possible apprentice and duplicating my set-up for the most part. I figure it will make it easier to translate "watching" into "doing" by having similar tools. I picked up a nasty old Boley watchmaker lathe as a first step in equipment acquisition: A few hours of...

Always wanted a custom vehicle that I could machine and/or fabricate bits and pieces for, and found with my skewed taste, a tadpole-style recumbent trike was fertile ground. When I reversed the quick release mechanism on the front wheels for looks (and maybe a tiny bit of aerodynamic flow), I...

My son's birthday is coming up and he is just starting learning about brewing beer. :beer: He has a starter kit with basic (probably cheapie) tools, but I'd like to get him something nice that an experience brewer could not live without. I know nothing about making beer even though I like...

I thought it would be fun to have folks show a comparison of their biggest and smallest of the same kind of tool--hammers, screwdrivers, vises, whatever. I just ran across a 5/64 (yes, .078"!) open end wrench used for who knows what. Here's that little ****** next to my biggest open end.

What is the one-line wisdom that was given years ago and still sticks in your head? "Never show a fool a half-finished job." and my personal favorite: "The pain of purchase soon dissipates."

I have a Brownell's gunsmith Magna-Tip screwdriver with an O-ring collet in addition to the magnet which makes the interchangeable bits very secure in the shaft with almost no wiggle at all. I'm looking for a ratcheting model (any manufacturer) that has this type of feature. The only thing I...

Has anyone used this stuff on their ratchets? I've used it for years on dead centers when machining, and recently saw some references to it from engine builders. I disassembled and lubricated a couple of ratchets with it and it works great, so far. It really quiets things down, and stays...

Here's a little gizmo I machined out of aluminum to mount a cycling computer on my recumbent trike. The upper part with the tube and flat side (the computer is strapped to it) is an eccentric turning--one piece. It is attached to the main plug with the two visible stainless flathead screws and...